Enhancing situational awareness, surveillance, detection, risk assessment and response activities using a mapping and visualization tool

Funding Opportunity Number: CDC-RFA-CK14-1404 Opportunity Category: DiscretionaryFunding Instrument Type: Cooperative AgreementCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 93.084Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)Agency Name: HHS-CDCClosing Date: Jun 30, 2014Award Ceiling: $1,000,000Expected Number of Awards: 2Creation Date: May 06, 2014Funding Opportunity Description: The purpose of this FOA is to enhance situational awareness, global context, surveillance, detection, risk assessment, and response activities through the use of sophisticated mapping and visualization tools to reduce the importation, exportation, and spread of infectious diseases. Specifically, the purpose of the visualization and mapping tools will be to do the following: Help predict health threats by monitoring multiple data sources, including outbreaks, emerging diseases, events of public health significance, media reports, and/or other sources. Provide new insights about health risks by evaluating conditions influencing a public health event by layering information such as disease vectors, travel and migration patterns, environmental conditions, animal and human populations, and any changes from historical data in the area where a disease has been identified. Provide information that can be used for public health responses at entry points to the U.S. by evaluating transportation network...
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